75 posts tagged Violets

Hi there! Hope you had a fantastic Mothers Day last weekend. I was super busy creating my product for mothers that I mentioned in my last post. After weeks of hard work, it’s now ready!! Check out my new product at http://www.flowers.pastorclarence.com If you like flowers (or someone else does)

My violet plants are all sending up buds and blooming. Done with a sharpie pen and Schmincke watercolor. Our Japanese maple tree is in full leaf and the color is amazing. Done with a sharpie pen and Schmincke watercolor. And.... I thought I'd show you a photo of our duck swimming in "her pond".

The favorite violet in the Wisconsin Violet Contest was the tried and trusty, true blue violet - the Common Blue Violet. The final tally was: Common Blue Violet (lawn-infesting, jelly ingredient) - 10 Confederate Violet (mutant soldier) - 5 Sweet White Violet (perfumed gymnast) - 5 Downy Blue

Ok, so the dead half tree is NOT a new addition to our garden. LOL We were going to cut it down, but the sparrows, cardinals, and purple finches all decided to make it their home this year. Yes all three together. There are babies already too!!! They did not like us digging around there today.

The Perfection of Imperfection...I have been spending a lot of time with photography and reflecting on the connections between it and DARE to AFFIRM. What I realize is that when I am just still and appreciative as I observe nature, I see and feel the energy of what is around me without trying at all to judge or have preconceived notions.

The modest, lowly violet In leaves of tender green is set; So rich she cannot hide from view, But covers all the bank with blue. —Dora Read Goodale I've been thinking of violets lately because we have thousands of wild ones in our lawn and they really are a sea of blue this time of year.

I am fairly confident that I have lost most of the interesting articles that I have read on the Internet—so I can’t cite this. But, somewhere I read that peas and violets are a lovely taste combo. I planned to make a pea soup with violets, but instead we had rice noodle soup with a pea-like combo salad.

We have a lovely infestation of violets. In the next few weeks, expect some culinary projects: crystallized, in sugar, in salad, in vinegar. In the meanwhile, the first picture is my entry for Click: Au Naturelle.

Will I eat what my mother makes me? Will I not? With a toddler, I have learned that it is really a 50-50 prospect.

Spring…finally! May 7, 2008 in Animals, Birds, Country, Farm Life, Flowers, Horses, Uncategorized, Wildlife | No comments Spring plowing. Tadpoles. I hope they eat EVERY single mosquito larvae. Mama and her baby. The neighbors must be trying to wean the baby because the mother horse and colt are in separate pens.